..Minority race was inversely related to EOLP. Findings suggest the potential role for social workers in helping cardiac patients to access social spiritual resources, and to consider engagement in EOLP...

..Other sociodemographically resourcable factors affected both the agency and pathway components of hope as well as dispositional optimism and dispositional pessimism directly or indirectly through their effects on emotional distress...

The use of complementary and alternative therapies among middle-aged and older cardiac patients

..Findings from a large-sample clinical trial by the National Institutes of Health call for innovative psychosocial intervention. Implications for professional practice, research, and education are outlined...

The influence of prayer coping on mental health among cardiac surgery patients: the role of optimism and acute distress

Amy L AiUniversity of Washington, USAJ Health Psychol 12:580-96. 2007

..Age was associated with better preoperative mental health, but age-related chronic conditions were associated with poor outcomes; both of these were mediated through the same mediators...